406 PUFFINID^. 



a. d ad. sk. Cape Seas, lat. 36° S., long. 10° E., W. J. Brown, Esq. 



Aug. 25, 1888. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Cape Seas, lat. 39° S., long. 9" E., Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. 8 (Dr. A. B. Meyer). 



c. Ad. sk. South Atlantic Ocean. T. Parkin, Esq. [P.]. 



9. (Estrelata mollis. 



Procellaria mollis, Gould, Ann. S,- Mag. N. H. 1844, xiii. p. 363 ; 



id. Birds Anstr. vii. pi. 50 (1848) ; Reich. Syst. Av., Natatores, 



pi. 25. figs. 2606-7 ; Earcourt, Ann. ^ Mag. N. H. 1855, xx. p. 438 



(Madeira) ; Layard, Ibis, 1862, p. 98 ; id. op. cit. 1872, p. 337 ; 



Schl. Mils. P.-B., vi. Procell. p. 11 (186.3); Newton, Ibis, 1863, 



p. 186; id. op. cit. 1868, p. 340; Hutton, Ibis, 1865, p.287(?) ; id. 



op. cit. 1867, pp. 188, 191 ; Pelz. Raise Novara, Zool. i. Vbg. p. 146 



(1869). 

 jEstrelata mollis, Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 190 (1855) ; Coties, Pr. Ae. 



Phil. 1860, pp. 150, 170 ; Goidd, Handb. Birds Ausfr. ii. p. 453 



(1865); Giyl. S,- Sakad. Ibis, 1869, p. 66; Gigl. Fauna Vert. 



Oceana, p. 42 (1870) ; Ridgw. M^in. N. Ayn. Birds, p. 63 (1887). 

 Rhantistes mollis, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 768 (1856). 

 Fulmarus mollis, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 107 (1871). 

 CEstrelata mollis, Salv. Ibis, 1877, p. 480 ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 738 ; 



id. Toy. 'Chall.,' Zool. ii. pt. viii. p. 144 (1881) ; Sharpe, Phil. Tram. 



clxviii. p. 128 (1879) ; id. ed. Layard's Birds S. Afr. p. 766 (1884) ; 



Layard, Ibis, 1882, pp. 539, 544 ( ?) ; Dalgleish, Ibis, 1890, p. 386. 

 ffistrelata philippi {nee Gray), Saund. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 164. 

 ? Procellaria melanopus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 562 (1788) ; Vieill. Enc. 



Meth.-p.79 (1823); Gray, ListAnseres Brit.Miis. p. 164 (1844). 



Adult male. Upper surface slate-grey, the feathers of the fore- 

 head margined with white, those of the back with a slightly paler 

 shade of grey ; wings blackish brown, the greater coverts greyish 

 and edged with whitish, a black patch in front of and beneath the 

 eye ; lores, throat, and under surface pure white, sides of the neck 

 freckled with grey, sides of the breast grey ; under wing-coverts 

 dark grey, the edge of the -wing and the quills blackish ; tail grey, 

 lateral rectrices freckled with white, under tail-coverts white : bill 

 black ; tarsi and proximal half of the toes and webs flesh-colour, 

 the remainder black. Total length about 14 inches, wing 10-3 ; 

 tail, central rectrices 4*4, lateral rectrices 3*2 ; biU 1-4, tarsus 1-4, 

 middle and outer toes 1-7, inner toe 1*6 



Female like the male. 



Hah. South Seas, northward in the Atlantic Ocean to ATadeira. 



In some specimens the grey of the sides of the breast meets in 

 the middle ; in others the under surface is suffused with grey. 



a 2ad.sk. South Atlantic Ocean, lat. 29° 45' S., Salvin-Godman CoU."^ is. //)■ 

 long. 15° 3' W., July 27, 1838 



{J. Gould). y 



6 cJ ad sk. South Atlantic Ocean, lat. 29° 46' S., Gould Coll. I '^'^■'^ 



long. 15° 3' W., July 27, 1838. J 



(Types of the species.) 



c Ad. sk. S. Atlantic Ocean, lat. 35° 50' S., J. Macgillivray [C.l. u- , 

 long. 27° 50' W., Feb. 13, 1847. 



